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Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast, episode number 132,

your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news with me Dan Wood. And me me Ravi Abbott. And there are hairy legs everywhere in the studio tonight. Oh God, it's a heat wave still, isn't it? And I think due to global warming, we're probably going to have this forever now. It does feel like, I mean, I know we go out to audiences all around the world, but I think this heat wave is pretty much a global phenomenon. Tomorrow, apparently, we're recording this on Wednesday now.

It's going to be like 36 degrees here in the UK.

Yeah, there's been fires in Greece.

There's been, oh God, what, in Japan there's been a massive heat wave as well. It's all over the place. I will admit that. I've not been inside playing many video games recently. No, no, I haven't. I've tried to go on the VR, but God, that thing's sweaty in this,

wherever I don't want to get on that.

I mean, I imagine a lot of people will be listening to this week's show

maybe on, like, but God, that thing's sweaty in this, whatever. I don't want to get on that.

I mean, I imagine a lot of people will be listening to this week's show maybe on, like, you know, hot beaches around the world. In the garden. Yeah, it's taking it nice and easy, nice, chill drink in your hand, maybe. Well, if you are new to the Retro Hour podcast, or you listen every week, thank you so much for being there. The show comes out every Friday. Ravi and I talk about what's happening in the world of retro gaming.

And there's been a lot of retro gaming news. Some new Atari Jaguar controllers we need to talk about soon. A prolog to one of your all-time favorite adventure games. A fan-may

project looks incredible. And also an unreleased Battletoads game. Remember that was massive back in the day. So more about those coming up soon. And this week's guest, now every week on the show, I think, you know, the reason we started doing this podcast is to give us a chance to talk to our heroes and the people that were behind the games that we grew up playing. Totally. And this guest we've got actually came to us, Jake Simpson. And you know, he's done some

fantastic stuff. He's worked with Midway, Raven Software, Williams, Ed Boone, you know, Mortal Kombat,

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